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Racism & Anti-Immigrant

Racial inequality remains deeply embedded within U.S. social and economic structures and although the U.S. has long been considered “a nation of immigrants,” the question of who those immigrants are and where they come from, has provided fertile ground for exclusionary and bigoted policies for over 200 years. The projection that the U.S. will no longer be a majority White country sometime in the mid-21st century has reinvigorated White supremacist anxieties present in the U.S. since its founding. A well-funded and organized constellation of organizations with direct ties to racist eugenics and White nationalism are now at the forefront of efforts to slow this demographic trend.

Religion Dispatches
Can the jewel of black academia, the nation’s largest liberal arts college created to produce “exceptional black men,” continue to thrive while it fosters a deeply homophobic atmosphere?
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Religion Dispatches
PBS’ The Jewish Americans covers three hundred fifty years of Jewish-American history with only a few glaring omissions.
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Religion Dispatches
On the 40th anniversary of his assassination, we honor Martin Luther King by refusing to ask: “What would King think?”
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Religion Dispatches
Anyone who thinks that full agreement with your pastor is necessary has never been to church…
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Religion Dispatches
With a new essay on black, gay civil rights giant, Bayard Rustin, Rev. Sekou makes the case for comparisons between the gay rights and Civil Rights movements.
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Religion Dispatches
To deny the parallels between the Civil Rights Movement and the fight for LGBTQ civil rights obscures the fact that the forces opposing both used the Bible and Christianity to do their dirty work.
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Religion Dispatches
To all the breathless detractors of “flyover country,” think about the history of Iowa before expressing shock.
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Religion Dispatches
Due to the widespread acceptance of black civil rights, some members and friends of the LGBTQ community have hitched their conceptual wagons to the black freedom struggle of the 20th century. While gay rights are no trifling matter, those eager to make comparisons may want to hold their horses.
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Religion Dispatches
A play about gay teens steps outside the box, sparks a loud clamor in religious media, and rankles an archbishop.
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Religion Dispatches
Despite our annual effort to remember it differently, Dr. King was universally criticized for his refusal to be a good “Negro leader”.
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